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[Music] yo yo what's up it's your man big Diamond D right here representing
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digging in the crates right here all hip hop this is where you come get that real real realness all right shouts out to my
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man big Chuck all hip hop we in the building baby yo what's going on world it's your
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man Chuck cmer here with my boy DJ thorough AKA thoro to the streets let's
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go let's go we are here with a triple threat and Hip Hop a legend a fine man a
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a a a producer rapper DJ Triple Threat sure they know
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what Triple Threat means right yeah all right Diamond D it's the diamond time on
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the platform finally this is finally time first time after all of these years after all these years on don't don't
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throw under the bus don't throw me under look we going have to you know
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what let's just get into it so I'm a fan bro I say this proudly I'm a fan I
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remember and you know you was at Sway in the morning and I said this man walked right
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past us he had to to get to sway cuz sway is just up the block couple blocks
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away not realizing where you were at fair enough fair enough fair enough don't leave that part off fair enough
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fair enough fair enough fair enough fair enough C but but we'll just say we'll
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just say let's that's water under the bridge you're here there sure you're one of my favorite producers um stuns blend and Hip-Hop
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classic man is is one of the best albums in the history in history of Hip Hop yes
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that's a fact yes don't argue with me yes that's a fact yes absolutely uh fact
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but we must say you have consistently been putting out projects the dime P
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series M and putting putting it down for the culture but you know you're not
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you're not out here reaching you just doing your thing classic hip-hop right
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so talk to us about what makes you stand on your Square in such a profound way in
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an era where clout chasing is a big thing or trying to do some other City
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sound is a big thing you know you know if I did any of that if I did any of that any of that you know it it wouldn't
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be it wouldn't be me I wouldn't be me you know what I mean and you know I've done enough in the culture where I don't
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have to um step out of my square you know so to say yeah you know um I'm still a fan of Hip Hop you know I'm
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still putting out music consistently you know the DME PE series you know I did
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the um I did talib's album the Gotham um the rear view you know I mean hey I've
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been in the game 30 plus is yeah you know and boom I got I got I got a slau
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on Buster ryes new album yo about just just just just check that out yeah like
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stun blunts came out like what December 92 early 93 right here we are 2024 right
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and I'm producing a joint for Buster RS new album right yeah that's about to drop next week right man listen you know
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that how was it working before we you know get into some some details how was
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it working with Buster what was that process like was it just was it sending be always always love with bust yeah you
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know we go back to um his first album okay um eel e is that his first album no
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the coming was right so his second album El I produced a song on near called what
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the you want um after that I did the bus of bus remix I worked on the Genesis album with
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him you know what I mean so me and bus we we already have a relationship you know he's one of he's one of my favorite
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artists to work with right now he was on your second album which we not we gotta give we gotta praise that too this one
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right mother here right right see that come on baby I'm up here for a
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reason yes sir y that record was crazy was that the first time he got on your
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record yeah okay that was the first time right that's right right what else was on there the projects the projects the
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Hiatus the Hiatus I mean Mercury from the ball but you know
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at that time you got Vanessa Williams got uh who them boys um uh who them four
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boys the boys not BR um the Four
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Brothers anyway not the boy not the forgot that name but you know Mercury is doing a lot Brian mcnight was over there
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they had me they had Blas Blas blaz blaz they F The Boy with um black sheet yeah
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you know shouts out to my man Bruce Carbone know he was over there doing his thing but everybody else is like you
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know it is what it is right how did you get that deal in the first place because
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uh that's that's big boy you know that's big boy territory uh for St blunts yeah
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um I was producing I was producing some demos for artist that they wanted to sign okay his name was joke and troll
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okay now r on one of the joints so maybe about three weeks past
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and they calling me down there so I'm thinking all right I'm going get you know get a check for these beats right
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and the anr his name was Brian Shin he had just come over from PRI from um priority
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records and uh Brian was like yo you know we want to sign you so I was like
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all right that you know that's cool fell in my lap but at the same time I'm like Yo Dogs is the one that brought me down
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here you know what I mean so I thought that was kind of crazy but you know know there's no way I was gonna say no to
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that is that the same ran that saw Ice Cube on priority is that the that's not the same okay okay this Brian chin he
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sign he signed um special ed okay um did a lot of work with how t Okay Howe T Ro
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yeah so that's how that came about like you know um I was doing somebody's demos and then they they they they got at
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me what crazy they act they told dud bring me down there yeah but didn't tell
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him why wow so he brought you down here bring your producer down here next time you come wow
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I I think if they would have told him dude might not never did y'all remain
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cool yeah to my knowledge you know you know and what's crazy I asked that artist joke and troll I said yo you know
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I felt a little guilty I said y why don't you r on some of these drinks from you on stunts blunts yeah I'm recording it now yeah you like n no I'm good I'm
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good I'm like all right right wow wow but I did reach out you reach right
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thing mean cuz if it wasn't for him you know you know it wouldn't wouldn't have jumped off of me now now on I but I
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already had a little name cuz I was in that group The Ultimate Force Ultimate Force you know what I mean shouts out to
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my man Jazzy J ja record City Jazzy J I met him I met him for the first time
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recently at the be Street Reunion yeah I was supposed to be there to induct him
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what but um out but shouts to my man Jazzy J you don't got the credit man
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listen I salute him every damn near jump started Death Jam M oh yeah it's produced it's yours yours
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T he got a song with Russell Simmons you remember when Russell Simmons tried
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rap just he wasn't really rapping he just talking he wasn't rapping but it felt like that beat was so and the
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radiar was rocking that [ __ ] that [ __ ] was crazy I I I was L yo I got that song memorized on man that sh better than my
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soul manuck [ __ ] me up with his hip-hop knowledge now I owned that record I lost all my
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records in the the purple death label yes sir yes sir I have the Beasty Boys first record too yo yeah come on well
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you know first hip-hop Rec okay there was a there was punk rock I don't have Cookie
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Puss right now speaking of people that wasn't rhyming why wasn't always wanted to know this how come Big L was not
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rhyming on Stunt Blunts and Hip Hop I hear he's he's on a skit why wasn't he why didn't he do a verse I don't know
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he's on a skit right why didn't he rhyme like know it just I think by the time Big L came around my [ __ ] was like kind
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of wrapping up okay you know what I mean that skit might have been like like one of the last one or two things I did got
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okay you know otherwise I would definitely had them on you yeah I was always wondering that I'm like why why did he rhyme like fat Joe's first time
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rying on the major label was on that album right on that song past that right
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dope yeah so before we get in into the details of not only the old albums but
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your new album right I want to ask you what your what you feel like your greatest
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accomplishment is production wise or just in general in in your G in your career maybe or one or
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two what what would you feel that is as far as accolades go I would say um
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producing producing the score for the food I knew was gonna say that I want to gra me for that wow that was incredible
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work body of work man made a lot of money I was able to move buy a house y y y
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um another thing would be um jump starting fat Joe's career yeah fair enough you know what I mean and to go to
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from where he was to where he is now right you know so um those are the two
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things like you know I'm I'm most proud of okay and of course you know I was one of the first producers to work with um
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artists on both Coast you know when I um in the 90s know
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alcoholic with the licks licks exhibit Cypress Hills House of Pain Far Side you
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know what I'm saying some of that was going on when it was supposed to be an un alleged East Coast West Coast beef but it really wasn't it was just that
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beef just between two camps two camps right fair I mean we was all getting money together right man say that how
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how did you meet F Joo you remember the day you met F Joo yeah playing I don't know playing baseball in the projects
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okay in Forest we were kids yeah okay you know spray spray painting on walls
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you know doing know people don't know Fat Joe used to do the Electric Boogie dead ass breaking yeah no not breaking
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elri boogie boogie he wasn't on the floorp pop okay okay so you know we we
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know we were kids we grew up right across the street from each other right I grew up in um 1020 he lived in 1,000
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right across the street 165 in Trinity La finesse right there too the same
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projects show be across the street you know so wow just radius 10456 right
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there how do you feel about how uh things have evolved with not only Joe
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but ditc in general like the crew um I love what we did you know what
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I mean what we did in the past was great you know um I mean I don't know what else to say
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you know I mean you stress the past but you know we definitely started you know we we we we created a movement you know
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we we had some momentum yeah and um like a lot of groups people just um bran off
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start doing their own thing yeah do you feel look at finesse you know finesse mainly DJs now he was one of the nicest
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MC's ever incredible man you know what I mean you know to the extent where he influenced Big L right mm absolutely no
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without question do you feel that you that the ball was dropped do you do you
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think that maybe y'all should have stayed tighter I think
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so you know I don't even I don't even want I don't even want to go into all that okay you
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know I just you know I wish everybody the best you know what I mean my last album was called the rear
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view and I named it that because I'm not looking in the rear view yeah you know what I mean yeah um fair enough you do
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that you know you become stagnant yeah absolutely so you know um I can't agree
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with you more man yeah no doubt about your own your own [ __ ] you was going through yeah started I couldn't agree
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with you more brother yeah um uh before we talk about Don peace Duos um I just
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want to I was going to kind of hold this to the end but you know Fat Joe has been
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I would say let's just say polarizing he gets the conversation started there have been a lot of talk uh where do where do
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you stand on all of that um a lot of Latino talk too which I don't know why
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we're still having that convo but but you know you you well you know they they
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were there yeah they they were there Latinos they were there you know did
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they start hip-hop no they did not start um as far as you know spinning records
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cutting breaks you know even Charlie Chase Charlie chase you know you got flies with Charlie Chase name m from 78
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and 77 he'll tell you himself you know um he
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first saw it with blacks but like I said we all live together in the South br went too you know we were neighbors
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Puerto Ricans and blacks you know what I mean um I just say this too uh using the word
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is never cool right but at the same token and this might be um a South Bronx
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thing or maybe even a tri state thing but I've been around Puerto Ricans who
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were beefing with other Puerto Ricans and they'll say I can't stand these yeah
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but they not talking about black they talking about other Puerto Ricans you know what I mean so you know hey it it
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you know that's what which is part of the vacular got back thing you know is
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it cool no but this is this is the reality yeah you know what I mean and I I lived through it yeah yeah you know
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what I mean so I had to get used to that by the way cuz I'm uh Native delawarean so I'm from Delaware originally that's
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why I said it's a South Tri it's really New York then man when I came to New York yeah I was like whoa hey what are
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we doing here you know cuz when that was used for around me right that's instant
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fight yeah yeah see that's why I we suspended from school instantly from the south Bron yeah Tri State thing copy
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that you know Puerto Ricans use the word yeah you know um is it right I would say
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no but it it is what it is yeah okay you know what I mean and um I mean I don't I
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don't even know what else to say you know and you know the people who are who are from the South Bronx who grew up there in in the era Hip Hop was coming
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along you ask them they'll tell you the same thing yeah yeah you know but hey like I said Puerto Ricans were there I
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think you know do rock right I'm sorry whip a whip whip a whip fantastic five
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fantastic you know Ruby D Charlie Chase DJ Wiz who started off
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with Grand Master Cass uhhuh you know what I mean like they is shout out to Joe conzo photographer Joe cono yes sir
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I think the blur line of misunderstanding was conception and participation meaning who invented it
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and who participated that's what people are getting misc conscrew when because because when someone say they're there
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they're taking it like they started it they're not saying they started just said it was there no that's the truth right but that's what I'm saying people
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are mixing creating and participating right it's two different things and that's where we that's why we're having
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this we keep having this conversation people don't know the difference the one thing I want to say is that we have to stop fighting like spit hairs Ry King
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can we all you know especially now at a time where we're all under attack and I
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think we have to just really maybe just table that for for for for the time
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being because it's turning into a toxic toxic situation right that is not
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producing anything positive that's how I feel so any yeah anywh who um um let's
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talk about the new album the project just give everybody we we listen to it um very dope can you run down some of
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the the people on it what you wanted to accomplish with this one and and so on
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and so forth well you know the new album is Duo it's the second part of a
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three-part series for the DI piece 3 um I I released initium about five
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months ago and the new album Duo I got my man Nims um n Shout out to Nims of
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course Nim um B real Cypress Hill
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Cypress Hill me Everlast of course oh [ __ ] PR dwok the infamous armadas I got Camp
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low on there Bronx my man Cardinal official card oh that record is special
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py crack you know my man Tech um ch
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F that crazy T from Wesson did I say Camp low camp Camp they from the BX
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shouts out to Campo you know what I mean my man Focus from the West Coast drus
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salute you know it's a nice mix yeah you know and um right now um the single
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tsny just got added to revoke TV so I'm proud of that and um radio stations
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radio stations are starting to show with some love I'm watching the numbers you know for those who might not know tsny
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stands for the sound of New York okay and that's the single with Nims my man
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prayer from BK um Saigon of course and my man T from the Bronx you know what I
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mean so right that's an interesting title the sound of New York right so being the climate let's take New York
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climate right right there there's a lot of um discrepancies about what you know the traditional New York sound we don't
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hear it with the new mainstream going on right now right what gives you the inspiration now to conform to what's
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going on and stay true to what you do again doing what I do right cuz a lot of artists they don't do that they they
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conform to they I got to do this now everybody's different right you know you turn the you know at one point you turn
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the radio here Sonic every other City ites it still does you know what I mean I'm just keeping it a buck that's my
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opinion no that's kind of a fact because I do a lot of traveling but yeah yeah but I you know I made that track and you
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know for those who've heard it y'all already know it does have that grimy NYC
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field to it yeah you know and um like I said it's resonating yeah numbers are
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looking good on them Nims helps out a lot because he's probably the most New York
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MC right now New York City MC he one of them one of them he one of them I mean you just can't get around it with no
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he's definitely you know hardore represents where not and that's no shade to nobody else sounds like where he's
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from whereas my point is you hear a lot of dudes from New York and you be like you from where why you rapping like that
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yeah but it but but the you know we got to acknowledge that things have changed right because people's entry point to hip-hop is not necessarily experienced
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like some of it is and it's not radio and it's you know some of it is just
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Spotify algorithm sometimes it's um interet you know the the radio is a
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hodge podge of everything now because some of the people are from New York City that are programming some of it are
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conglomerates mhm right you know that are that are like uh some DAV D from the
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West Coast he he's a radio guy he he can explain this better than me but basically there's a an agenda to make it
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all the same right I agree but I we can agree to disagree that's not excuse for
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me because when he came out with um um stun Bloods and Hip Hop 92 uh that's the
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same around the Times the west coast is on fire this man got no sounds on his record that sounded like West Coast
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trying to conform to that because that's what was popular I'm talking about now though no I'm just saying like but I'm saying but artists still can stay true
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to themselves despite what's going on elsewhere they don't no I agree but yo
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if you really look at even New York hip hop in New York City no people did not
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sound the same so the sound of New York really so for example Diamond D right
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Onyx came out like right around that [ __ ] sounded the same that's what I'm saying green none of it Gangstar
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they red man we don't get that it was very you know New York New Jersey right
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there like everybody had a unique sound I think being original was more important why do you think we don't get
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that no more like why does everybody the same people well first of all I think people are
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literally unoriginal right they they are just unoriginal right I think labels
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don't Scout for originality anymore if they're sign scouting at all right yeah
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you know what I'm saying so I think the stakes are much higher now when you uh dumping money they before you could
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actually flop on your first album which which many artists did and they would say y this guy's worth it let's let's
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keep working with them yeah you know I mean like mob deep for example like what if they're what what if hit it from the
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back was like the end right you know what I'm saying so I just think it's a lot different I think um right nowadays
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if you look at Doshi for example very an incredible artist she's actually dropped
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many projects like but just now starting to yeah right just now really cooking
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and her last couple years ago she was swinging for the fences like she was really trying to go pop right and she
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just came back home a little bit and now look what happened so right you can do
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it but you got to have faith right it always brings me back to his album uh when he was talking about fi the vibe
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when he was talking about the D rying over a hype drum hype Dr machine and like the keyboard sound like just killing you killing your VI like why is
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you why are you doing that like that's not what we do here that was the mindset he's been been going on since it's not
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that it wasn't going on it was going on but not a disproportionate rate like it's crazy CU you know at the park Jam
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you didn't see no instruments two turntable yeah right yeah but you know hip-hop evolves you know what I mean
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does it really evolve or does it it evolves and sometimes you know it
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goes it's a living breathing thing no I think I think it definitely evolves and it has to if it if it's going to live um
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and we don't have to like it by the way you know what I'm saying like what generation I think I think we're the
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closest generation this this could be different for but what generation likes
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the same music as their parents or their kids like closest we are we are the
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closest sample what they was listening to that's what happened sample what they listen to man me and my daughter man
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we've had s such great conversations like thank you Drake Thank You Kendrick for beefing cuz we I got so close to my
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daughter and she's that during that beef cuz we just talked about it for for hours and hours and it
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was like it was just dope man so how you know hip-hop in general man and and it
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just it's just a unifier in a way that that certain other genas aren't so I
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appreciate it yeah yeah we we can argue just like my dad my dad used to be like man my dad liked hip-hop right but he
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liked James Brown that he loved James Brown my dad liked hipop I love James Brown so he's like James
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Brown is the Godfather of Soul and Hip-Hop and I was like man get out of here man he old dissing dissing hip-hop
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what you mean now I'm older now so I'm like yeah you know okay you know he probably was talking because at one time
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a lot of hip-hop record sample je everything I mean he was the source
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the source of that [ __ ] literally he was literally the George Clinton yeah only
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George Clinton comes close to to and and that's and for the West Coast Roger
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Troutman Z yeah Roger and George George but shout why' you say shout out to the
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bomb squad cuz they sampled him a lot he yeah I mean hell yeah fun drummer let's
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start right there that's why I shouted them out specifically a lot of them early Public Enemy joints um I mean they
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had the wall of sound is isn't even um Rebel weather Paws is that James Brown Yo now that messed me up it's the JB's
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right I didn't know that at first yeah the whole album if you want to keep it a buck yo by the way that record was the
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most for everyone else in the world the most annoying record ever created Public Enemy Number One is blow your head is it
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I didn't know that genius shout out to the bomb incredible man we got it one day
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man we're gonna get the Bob Squad sorry I'm sorry I'm on a tangent I got I got I
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got shouts out to Hank that's Wonder's neighbor Eric Sadler what Wonder yeah
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that's his neighbor that's his guy didn't you sell him the first um drum machine or
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somebody who was that cuz he Pete Rock he show Pete Rock his first drum machine NPC crazy okay all right you got history
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up in here we we got we got a problem now all right yo let me ask you a question yeah about the 90s how
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competitive were y'all you Pete Rock Rock who used to rap to large Pro
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large large Pro Primo um who else um Eric Sherman Eric
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shman man all of Y [ __ ] W [ __ ] wild y'all was killing them beats back qtip
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JD J hey you know there was competition but you know we we we all we all we all
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respected each other we all we all go record shopping together after Roosevelt I remember I seen that yeah yeah but
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just let me cut in real quick and none of them sounded the same mhm no I know a Diamond D beat when I hear one I know a
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Primo beat when I hear one is they had a sound they go to record shopping together but we don't sound the same
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yeah right yeah yeah I mean that's the beauty of this it was competition but you know it for the most part it was
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respectful like oh see y heard how you flipped that yeah you know or you know I like how you did that or somebody tell
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you I like how you flipped that record you know right um back then it was mainly who could flip something first
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Yeah okay or or who could chop up something first that that was that was the big deal how did you get out to the
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masses first how did you learn how to make beats who taught you if anybody um oh man my teacher Jazzy J Jazz oh Jazzy
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J Wow shout out to Jazzy J okay Jazz you know hey Jay's the legend you know DJ
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and soul Sonic Force right I mean yo come on wow I didn't know that I was
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wondered that did I didn't know did Jazzy Jay get mad at Jazzy Jeff there's a lot of Jazzy going no no
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but I do know I I remember Jazzy Jeff from the funky 4 Fun Su J Records
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because they had a DJ Jazzy Jeff right oh yeah you know but also um I do know
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at one time it was cool for people to have the same name as long as I did different things oh okay you know he
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could be MC uh I don't know MCG killer you know whatever right
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and somebody else can be DJ Giller and it was no beat because y do different
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things okay okay you know what I mean but yeah Jeff he went after them and J broke him
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off and he was signed to job too wow d That's crazy speaking of names how did
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you get Diamond D you know um there was an MC in my area named Diamond D and uh
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he was mad nice he he went on to the service okay and he stopped raming
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so I was a DJ at that point so I said you know I said yo you mind if I you know use that name he was like yeah go
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respect respect you know what I mean so I got it from him okay you know I was just I was strictly a DJ at that point
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and like I said this this is the time where you can have the same name as long as you did different things if I if I
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was trying to be a MC it would have been a problem okay you know what I mean so
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what what where were you when the Bronx and queens were going at it when KS and the juice crew and all that was
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happening what how how were you how were you in in your life where were you in your life High School M High School um
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sophomore high school team Bronx I live I'm from the Bronx you know
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what I mean so you know hope know DJing outside DJing in my room hoping to get
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heard one day yeah you know like most teenagers you know what I mean and um I
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remember MC Shan he came to um he came to the to the
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to the Bronx there was a club called zodiac 2 on Jerome Avenue under the for
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train and um he got on the stage he said yo this ain't for the whole Bron this is
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just for K he made that click right right and he did South Bron kill that
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noise in the you know what I mean he got up out of there safely he got up out you
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know he he made it clear this ain't for the whole Bronx this just for krs1 right yeah and um I was there that night you
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know what I mean looking at sh y boy but you know um he made it clear it was just
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it was a thing between him and KRS one yeah okay you know shouts out to MC Shen
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shout out to Shan sh he he he did do that no to his credit yeah yeah shout up to him D the G yeah that took a lot of
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guts back then to do that yeah I could have went a whole another way for real just with just ice out there
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somewhere yeah right just shout out to just I I don't even want to get into that
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um um so let's talk about stunt Blunts and Hip Hop um now first I want to ask
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you this who are The Psychotic neurotics I literally never that was my crew I was run with my DJ KX okay right
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um my dancers you know back then the early 90s you know had dancers yeah
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right you know school been scrap you had the dancers who were down with EPM mhm cuz D just a show yeah yeah you I mean
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um so everybody had dance Queen Latifa had the Safari sisters know what I mean So Co rap had Sean and Kenny yeah yeah
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you know what I mean so you know it it it that was the thing back then right right so I had two of my dancers in
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there Elite dancer and my man my man U my man Thomas my DJ KX and my hype man
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whiz one so that was the group that was the group yeah you know and that's who I was running with back then okay you know
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and um uh by the way folks if you want to get his classic seminal album and you
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have to you have well I'm talking about this particular one because it's the one
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in your catalog that's under diamond oh yeah yeah yeah yeah it's not under Diamond D so you have to look under
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diamond and psychotic neurotic and psychotic neurotic that's what album is credited right so if you put in Diamond
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D it's going to go to everything else right basically yeah glad you said that
31:58
so people can stop jumping in my DMs yo I can't find your first joint yeah it
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ain't up here right and I asked what what name did you search they said
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Diamond D I said it's not credited to Diamond D yeah but and they go oh damn right yeah boom and look as soon as I
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told Chuck he pulled it right up yep yep yep right that um man that
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album it felt like a grown man album it it felt it felt so mature
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and yet you were you were very very young y yeah um where were you in life
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in that period like where where were you in like one foot in college one foot on
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the Block yeah right right you know on the Seesaw you know what I mean um right
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and um as a producer um around that time I had just finished working um on La finess first
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album with Primo funky technician um the funky technician MH classic another
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classic yeah so I had a stack of wreckage and I was
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like yo if I ever get a chance to do my own joint you know I'mma run through these joints and when it happened I have I have my power ready you had it ready
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you know what I mean so right yeah so you had those beats already ready to go the vinyls no I know you had the the
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vinyls when before you got the deal all the Beats for um stunt mons and Hip Hop did you have those beats already done no
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or you did it said I get sit run through all of this I got a pile you know I'm
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going make some drinks out of this pile right here and I want to salute you you had Anthony Mason man dunking the basketball come on man respect yeah
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Anthony Mason on the court rest in peace Anthony first video Yeah rest in peace Anthony Mason Queen stand up that was
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crazy now how did that happen I was curious about that my label knew him okay cuz he's from Queens yeah I I
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didn't know him personally but you know somebody my label I forgot who it was he said yo um I'm I'm ask Anthony ma
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to come by your video I was like yeah that's what's up you know I thought he was just talking and then when I showed
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up not only did he he's dunking basketball all he's playing he's getting
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busy crazy rest in peace Mason rest in peace um sampling is pretty much a lost art I
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mean maybe maybe maybe it's a l time maybe not what are your thoughts on like
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the sampling and how it's tied to hip hop as a you know as a as a as an
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authentic version of the art well my thoughts saw you know um it's the
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essence before the sampler a DJ had to have doubles of a break right so in
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essence the two copies in the mixer was a loop yeah you know but you
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it wasn't no drum machine you know a DJ just a DJ just had to be nice enough to catch it to catch the break you know
34:57
shouts out to Grandmaster Flash for starting that yeah you know um you know
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flash you know if you if you heard the story Flash say he would go to herk parties and herk had a lot of break
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beats but he he he he did he wouldn't cut them on time uhuh uhuh so flash said
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he had to figure out a way how to do that uhuh and keep everybody dancing but on beat yeah right you know what I mean
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so what's it called the it's a he has a phrase for it what Kurt no no no no
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flash quick mix the quick mix the yeah man he broke that down yeah science yes
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a science yeah and people still do it to this day to this day right so when the sampler came out
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oh now I ain't got to run around this run around the town to try to find
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another double right right I could just use this one joint and loop it up or chop it up right you know shouts out to
35:55
the great Marley M you know that's you when I first heard the bridge like a lot
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of people I was like yo how the he could impeach the president like right like
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this you know what I mean and you know he sampled the kick right sampled the
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hat and the snare you know what I mean and you know Marley was genius for that
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yeah you know what I mean you know Marley's definitely one of my influences
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right you know I have several him the bomb squad of course Jazzy J 45 King
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rest in peace right Prince Paul you know these are the people who preceded me but
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they were definitely influencing me um from from their Productions and the
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selection of their samples right right you know what I mean that was important right and let me cut in real quick sampl
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man I don't think it'll ever die or be a lost art form him because if you think of you it be hard pressed to name one
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hip hip-hop record that don't have a sample in it yeah well know lot of G fun
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right but I'm saying like even like right now we say the biggest record last record we say Kendrick Lamar right not like a that's a sample yeah you know I
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mean so I don't think it's a lost art I just it's not done you know you know I think also people don't want to pay they
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don't want to pay you know what I mean but keep your publishing right you know that that's understandable right you
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know what I mean but you know if you know I mean again it's a preference thing what would what would stun Blunts
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and Hip Hop be without samples it's a different era too you
37:35
know mean let me let me ask you uh so you know we've had offline conversations
37:41
so I'm not stirring up the pot here but your samples have been sampled like
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your digging has been sampled how's that how I put it like that um how do you feel I eat off of it yeah you know um if
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you sample if you sample best kept secret you know the three dog night they
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going to eat off of that uhuh I'm gonna eat off of that cooling the gang gonna eat off of that whoever the whoever are
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the writers uhuh you know and um I I learned that the hard
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way even though it should have been it should have been common knowledge you know on my second album I had a song
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called the projects cof sampled coffee I sampled PA
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the news saying no wonder where we live it's called the projects right but by me doing that everybody
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else on that song with PA got credit because it came from that Master
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composition it would have been smarter and and cheaper for me to offer P you
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know a few grand and have him come in there and just say the right you know what I mean wow so that's where I
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learned oh that would have been M no the publishing side and the master side the master side right so when you look at
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the credits on that record it's like damn near 15 writers on that song from
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one [ __ ] voice voice right wow you know yeah I think that takes away from the creativity because when you
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making record you got you got to keep all that in mind now you be like man I'm not even going to do this [ __ ] but
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that's why some Producer instead of samping they'll replay it right cuz now you only got to clear the master keep
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your publishing MH you know it's a little game for all you up and cominging producers I mean
39:32
definitely learn some musicianship how definitely how difficult has it been for you uh you
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know over the course of your career to to to continue to evolve and also just
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maintain your your business you know um you know most people don't realize it's
39:51
a business even to this day especially younger people um has that been
39:57
difficult making that transition cuz you're you're from a label like I know a lot of um artists that that started out
40:03
with a label they they they hold out they like man I can't get a you know I can't get this this advance or I I'm
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waiting for the deal I'm not going to sign a 360 or you know whatever yeah yeah you know how how how have you been
40:15
able to transition and evolve time Wass for no one you know you can wait around for that if you see the ain't clicking
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you got to do for yourself so I'm from the do for yourself era yeah you know what I mean um um I'm also a realist you
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know like we were talking about radio earlier Urban radio the demographics are
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18 to what 18 and 35 18 and 30 maybe uhhuh pretty much those are not boom bap listeners right yeah you know what I
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mean and I'm a boom bap artist you know um so is red man you know so is Eric
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Surman so you know any anybody you can name from my era who's still putting out music Kon and Pete you know l
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you know um but yo once once you Embrace that
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boom bap lives on serus
41:11
XM well okay make it your business when you're in town to go up
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there yeah and make your presence known shake some hands these are the people who are playing your music yeah I would
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love a Hot 97 on 105.1 to be rocking my joints they're not going to do it it's not a Diamond D thing they're just not
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programmed to play Boom B hip hop yeah you know what I mean and I can't change
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it it is what it is yeah you know what I mean so when I'm in town I'm right up at
41:42
shade45 doing what I do you know Hip Hop Nation Rock The Bells you know it's it's
41:50
a bunch of radio stations up there but that's where you go to he boom back you
41:55
know shout out to them that's where I heard everybody I just name I hear all the records up there right I cut on Hot
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97 no shade the HOT 97 it is what it is but I won't hear none of those records
42:07
yeah you know what I mean so who haven't you you feature a lot of artists on your
42:14
albums yes new and old new and old who haven't you worked with that you would like to work with rockim rockim Okay
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okay rock Kim you know I'm going try to make that happen you know it's not a POS know I know rock
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him so just a matter of us um sitting down and me playing some
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joints for him yeah but he's probably at the top of the list okay you know uh maybe common okay now I did I
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did a track I produced a track on U Farah Mar's album okay um his first
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album okay Internal Affairs Internal Affairs there was a swing course of Truth M which had Pharaoh quad and
42:57
commment on it okay so I produced that okay that was a while ago maybe late 90s
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so um I know I would add comment to that um few other artists you know what I
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mean but yeah I'm G try to make that happen it's POS very possible put it into exist speak it into existence yeah
43:16
yeah what about uh um I know you did a whole project with TB what anyone else
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you would want to do a full project with I mean Rock Kim obviously would
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would make sense but any any or a perhaps a theme maybe I don't
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know I'm sure it is I just can't think offand who but um yeah do you have any
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young artists that you could shout out you know one thing I think that we make the mistake of doing is not putting on
43:48
enough Young Artists or not even or even educating them on certain things what
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what what's your stance on that um if if any you like or well you know yeah I mean yeah you know some of the newer
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acts you know I you know of course you know with Kindred you know from the
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lyrical you know know from his lyricism yeah you know um I like J Cole I like my
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man snooze from out of Harlem um NS is a new artist you know he
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yeah he's not a young artist but he's a new artist yeah you know in you know in the game um my man tuns from the Bronx
44:27
you know you always got to yo you should always try to if you're a producer always try to get some of the young
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energy you know what I mean and you know it it it helps to it helps to carry your
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legacy also yeah you know what I mean always try to incorporate some of the new artists and
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that's what I've done on my on all of my down piece joints the first one the second one and not the third one yeah
44:50
yeah you know definitely um there's one song on here in particular I wanted to
44:57
the Highlight um well you know there's a lot of them actually but hold on pull
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this up because it's that it's this young it's a younger artist and he's oh
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my man junk yeah that's it that's name of the song it's up to me right that's
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what I'm saying yeah and me and junk hooked up because I you know I I I discovered him um sway had he had like a
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contest you know different new himc he let him come up there spit or whatever and I heard him I heard him spitting I
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and I was like yo I get back off vacation I'm a holl at dude yeah and that's what I did yeah you know and he
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was honored but you know it took me to reach out to him right you know what I mean so you know it's it ain't it's it's
45:45
it's not no ego put the egos aside you know if you see somebody you know a new artist and you want to work with them
45:50
don't let it be known yeah you know what I mean um shorty Sha's another one okay
45:56
shorty Sha mad nice you know I saw him he was ring on um the infamous show okay you know in
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got a radio show up at um Shade 45 I believe and um tearing [ __ ] up yeah you
46:10
know the same thing with INF you know but um yeah lot of lot of good new energy out here yeah you know if know
46:19
you know if you just ask me who would I want to do an album with I would say shorty sha really okay
46:25
yeah he's up at coming and you know he he he's that nice he's on a song called hyenas on on
46:32
the new album with Tech from Smith and West W Tech is my guy yeah and my man
46:38
ree hustle from the Bronx another new artist right what I mean
46:43
so um question are there any tracks that didn't make the score album that hasn't
46:50
seen the light of day that you have in your no I only did the title track oh oh okay okay I thought maybe you're
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recording yeah yeah no just title track when it done when it done yeah but I didn't know was going to be the title
47:01
track right you know it was just the score I didn't know they gonna name the album to score right oh okay when we did
47:07
the song right you know what I mean so okay that was Wonder there was some turmoil with that too but uh you know
47:13
it's water under the bridge now shouts out to the Fuji shout out to the Fuji man that's crazy so Dam you
47:23
you're are how many how many how many triple threat people do we have out there ah Dr Dre Dr Dre is a triple
47:30
threat people don't know that but he was a DJ before he even started producing he said DJ on KDAY you know what I mean and
47:37
um that's one Pete Rock DJ Qui I mean we just G just DJ Qui like he don't get this credit TJ Qui he said out to him TJ
47:45
Qui Lord finesse finesse finesse large Pro large Pro we said diamond right bro
47:52
Eric shman Alchemist Alchemist Alchemist sh Al buck is Buck no he don't rap he
47:58
don't spit though he's he's a double threat Havoc Havoc okay but wait Havoc
48:04
is he DJ DJ he started as a DJ D I didn't know that I didn't know that
48:10
okay I want I want to we leaving people out but right you know yeah we definitely I'm sure like what about EA
48:17
ski you worked with EA ski right is he a triple threat that'd be a dope album yo all these Triple Threat cuz he he's
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rhyming on um on the album in inian yeah yeah yeah meet him and 38 spe I feel
48:30
like I feel like Redman is a triple threat R start as he start as DJ yeah yo
48:35
by the way Red Man shout out to him I interviewed him we had a great conversation but one one DJ in
48:41
particular who shall remain nameless was upset at Red Man for not having any scratches on his album yeah like you a
48:49
DJ you a DJ you not you oh yeah you know what we forgot Rizza RZA Rizza was a DJ
48:56
RZA he's more than a triple he like a quadruple quintuple threat him and
49:02
Mathematics was DJs before he started you know that yeah R I know from the prince Rockin joints yeah oh we love you
49:08
rock yeah but no he was a DJ first okay shouts out to r r m wow that' be a dope
49:15
album concept you get all these guys in some form fashion Hightech to do an album together yeah gota make that
49:21
happen D that would be that be ill yeah because you know Innovation is is is what's going to push push
49:27
push things forward yeah uh rest in peace bis Mary bis Mar another one reduced he spit
49:34
and he DJ right and he beatboxed oh Mad Skills Mad Skills skills yeah yeah you
49:40
know what a secret M produc I think okay yeah I think I learned this in your
49:45
interview he wanted to be the first well he wanted to promote himself as a rapper
49:51
DJ right and they wouldn't let him is that no he wanted he he wanted to um he
49:56
wanted to be the first rapper to beat juggle okay on time and then do a record
50:02
but like like like um who's this um Mass skills oh M skills yeah you said he
50:07
produced also he produced yeah he produced yeah he produced also right my man e Swift from the alcoholics e Swift
50:13
right shout out to the alcoholics man know dope man Tash oh my God catastrophe
50:18
yeah yeah jayro ah K Capri another one
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k there's a couple of us yeah K know yep kick a PRI you know when you when you
50:32
subtract the ones who write their own Rhymes know it shrinks a little bit see there you
50:39
[Music] go
50:45
[Music] okay it is you know but hey if somebody
50:51
on the team if that pin game is nicer than yours yeah pay that man and y'all get money to together all that's an
50:56
interesting point I didn't I didn't think about that fair enough hey fair enough what P was said man got to know
51:03
his limitations true that true that yo a l shot of there
51:12
Canon subract rhy I wasn't even thinking like
51:17
that that's crazy all right so what's what's next for you now like what I mean obviously this album is is just out but
51:23
yeah album just dropped 10 songs already got nine videos in the Cano n I'm
51:29
working like a new artist and I've been in the game for a minute that's what's up you know what I mean the first first
51:34
video dropped last week like I said that's tsny just got picked up by Revol
51:40
TV and know like I said I got 10 joints joints and as I sit here right now I got nine videos done yeah and um yo when you
51:49
doing the 10 video cuz you need you know you need your boys in there come on what we doing hey you want your phone call
51:55
away yeah cuz look look I look I was in a video sub sir was in a video with r run well
52:03
DMC and let me give you your flowers I got we we both got to give him his flowers why you got give me flowers I'm
52:09
gonna tell you why you hold on you have a song with Coogi rap this man did a record with COI rap see come on man
52:17
flowers All Right Flowers big things big big he did a record he rhing with Coogi
52:23
rap how big is that rap is man that's crazy the the personal goat put it like
52:29
this Gap is the guy that said oh yeah Chuck you you should do this too I
52:34
idolized rund DMC but but but when I heard GP and Kane I I Gotta Throw Kane in there but GP and Kane right were like
52:42
the two dudes that were like yo maybe you should try that hey coming from
52:47
those two saying that that's incredible yeah man but um but but you know I want
52:53
to ask you has GP this is just a general question for the for the group has G ever spit A Wack bar A Wack verse not
53:01
that I've heard not that I've heard never I don't think so never I don't think shout no one one of the illest
53:08
never heard of wack version ever never Red Man brought that up to me last
53:13
night I don't think so right never nope I can't even think of one nope I'm
53:19
trying to him and Domingo be working a lot together shout out to Domingo that's my brother yeah Big D see I about you
53:27
kid shout out to Domingo he texted me today that's a good man right there yeah yeah yeah I'm going uh I'm going go
53:33
visit him soon okay GNA hang out offline yeah yeah well Diamond I want to say man
53:39
salute bro I appreciate you please thanks for having me don't make this the last time he don't make this the first
53:45
and the last I see where you at right now right [ __ ] right here Midtown right in the middle of that's right we about
53:51
to get active here at one world Studios we about to activate for the culture because guess what what we all we got
53:58
exactly we got to huddle up we got toti together we all we got now before we go you're you're my last hope with this
54:04
question man I've asked Premiere I've even asked finesse I've asked I've asked
54:09
B all right please just so you know Big L is my favorite rapper okay ever right
54:15
favorite rapper ever please tell me somewhere in your hard drive and your discography of stuff that never came out
54:21
you got a big L verse that nobody's heard I don't no damn
54:26
man if I did I would have been that [ __ ] out man you know through the Propet
54:32
channels right through the Propet channels right wow but no I don't I do have a big pun verse oh I'm getting some
54:40
I think but I think he spit it on some other right I think so right yeah okay
54:46
there was a song on my second album called Five Fingers of Death Five Fingers of depth okay and pun came in he spit a verse on that
54:53
right and U but I didn't use it right I think because I think he had put it on somebody else's
55:01
verse okay yeah all right pun is so ill
55:06
so one of the illst rest peace Big Pun can I tell y'all a story nope let me tell y'all a story while I I'll always
55:14
be a little upset with Fat Joe and I'm gon tell Fat Joe if I see him for a period pun was my favorite
55:21
rapper my favorite MC right I to this day I think that capital punishment will
55:27
will will line up with go could battle with any album yeah well one one time I you know in my fan
55:36
era really yeah I'm I'm always in a fan era but I I I I I I go see Joe and pun
55:43
perform somewhere I forget where in in the city and and in the distance behind
55:49
this Pavilion behind this partition whatever you call it I can't get past it
55:55
there they're right there right they're right there and I and I say pun right
56:03
pun you know come over here picture sh whatever I forget I'm not an autograph guy so it had to be a picture please
56:10
please pun turns around he's going back Fat Joe says
56:20
something and then I see this oh gave you the wave they W and they
56:27
walk and they kept walking and they and they kept walking in fact and and and
56:32
unfortunately pun died short the next year or something very soon after that
56:38
wow and I was like man yeah my one shot to me now before we go I I want to do
56:46
something that's very sentimental to me okay sentimental okay so you recognize this yeah I know them dudes you know
56:53
these dudes you know who gave me this who Big L he gave that to you he gave this to me that's crazy you guys had a
56:59
show Rock Steady um crew anniversary at Manhattan Center that's right and he gave me this right here show me that I'm
57:05
breaking out my own camera this right here I've been holding on to this since then yeah it's right here it's kind of rough around the Ed right yeah I need
57:12
you to I need you I need you to do the honors and sign that for me oh yeah most definitely like I've been holding this since then got the Sharpie on got the
57:19
sharpie yeah Sharpie on Deck this is history Quick Draw
57:24
gr okay I'll do it when he time yeah bigel gave me this and he gave me a
57:32
stamp it was it was another thing where y was on some stamps a stamp collection of everybody from
57:37
DTC thank you yeah man legendary yeah that's it legendary
57:45
Round Table legendary That's History whose idea was it for this cover right here um probably show biz I think show
57:51
biz yeah right it was crazy yeah all right all right right thank you very
57:57
much man once again yeah of course love the too man you're killing it with the p py yeah
58:03
no keep it class major real leather [ __ ] is crazy nothing I like he mod you know
58:10
nothing majoran yeah one of 38 that I have you know what I mean right exactly exactly
58:18
man I got a couple of them I know you do when you done with that just you know hold right
58:27
I need one oh man need one so that's what it is Diamond D Man Diamond D
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legendary legend legend legend legendary status all
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right all right let's go yeah
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